The Role of Small Modular Reactors in India for Energy Transition The NITI Aayog recently released a report on ‘The Role of Small Modular Reactors in the Energy Transition’. Apart from Renewable Energy (RE), nuclear is also being explored as …
India – Australia Migration, Mobility Pact (MMPA) India and Australia signed a migration partnership agreement during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Australia. It is aimed at promoting two-way exchange of students, graduates, researchers, and business people, and expanding people-to-people …
International Museum Expo 2023 The Prime Minister inaugurated the International Museum Expo 2023 in New Delhi to celebrate the 47th International Museum Day (IMD). International Museum Day on 18th May every year to raise awareness about museums. India will have …
Quad Cooperation in Biotechnology In 2021, the Quad set up a Critical and Emerging Technology Working Group to facilitate cooperation related to developments in critical and emerging technologies, including biotechnology. It uses living systems, particularly microorganisms and cell cultures, to …
Model Prisons Act 2023 A new Model Prisons Act to replace the current 130-year-old ‘Prisons Act, 1894’ Ensure legal aid to prisoners, provision of parole, furlough and premature release Ensure the physical and mental well-being of these vulnerable inmates and …
Indian Space Policy 2023 Key Points The government has approved the Indian Space Policy (ISP) 2023, to boost private sector participation and increase investments in the space sector from private companies. The policy seeks to institutionalize the private sector participation …
Delhi Government Case Vs LG Context: The Supreme Court of India has given the state government of Delhi complete control over administrative services in the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCTD), except for public order, police, and land. Background of …
25th anniversary of Pokhran-II On May 11, 1998, codenamed Operation Shakti (literally, “strength”)/Pokhran-II, India conducted three nuclear bomb test explosions at the Indian Army’s Pokhran Test Range. Pokhran-I/Operation Smiling Buddha: By the 1970s, Vikram Sarabhai (Bhaba’s successor at the DAE) …
Ethanol blending target (2023 -2025) Oil marketing companies (OMCs) receive 45% of contracted 514 crore litres of ethanol for the ethanol supply year (ESY) 2022-23 ending October. Blending ethanol with petrol to burn less fossil fuel while running vehicles. The …
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) He was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. One of the most remarkable institutions established by Tagore – Visva Bharati …